Pencil-holder



Unrrnn HENRY W. HOLLY, OF NORWICH, CONNECTICUT."

PENCIL-HOLDER..

Specification forining part of Letters Patent N0. 58,102, dated September 18, 1866.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY W. HOLLY, of Norwich, in the county'of New London and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Pencil-Holders; and I do hereby declare that the followingis a full, clear, and exact description ofthe same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a side view of a pencil-holder constructed according to my invention. Fig. 2 is a transverse section of the same. Fig. 3 is a transverse section of a portion thereofon a greatly-enlarged scale. Fig. 4. is a transverse section, showing the construction of the common peiwil-holder.

Similar letters of reference indicate corre-` sponding parts in all the iigures.

lhe pencilholders in common use for holding pencils, crayons, Sac., consist of a tube one end of which is divided longitudinally at opposite sides, thus forming two clamping tongues upon the end of the tube, which are pressed together by means of a sliding ring or collar to grasp or hold the pencil between them. This construction is objectionable, for the reason that the space between the said clamping-tongues is elliptical in form, so that the penciln is grasped only at its two opposite sides, and inasmuch as the said tongues are necessarily of considerable thickness to make them sufciently stiftl and strong. This invention is designed to obviate these defects; and it consists in a novel construction ot" the holdr,whereby it is enabled to concentrically hold the pencils` or crayons by pressure upon all points of their circumference, and whereby it may be made of thinner metal, which not only renders it lighter, but reduces the cost of manufacturing it.

To enable others to understand the con struction and operation of my invention, I will proceed to describe it with reference to the drawings.

A is the stem or body of the holder, which is of tubular form, and may be made of a strip of thin sheet metal bent or. folded into suitable shape. One end of this tube may be closed, or provided with an ornamental head, a,whi1e the opposite end, b, is left open to receive the pencil B. Extending inward longitudinally from this open end Z1 of the stein A, upon one side of the said stem, is a slit, c, which extends some distance toward the head and tapers to a point at its inner end, or, in other words, is widest at the open end of the said stem. The said open end of the stem A is made tapering, so that a sliding ring or collar, C, may be slipped upon it in such manner that when the said ring is pushed inward it will compress the said end of the stem A, so that the edges thereof upon the opposite sides ofthe slit c will approach each other, and thus reduce the diameter of the stem at that part at the same time that the ring or collar C causes it to retain its circular or concentric shape, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 3.

The pencil or crayon is secured in the holder by iirst pushing the ring or collar C .forward or outward, which allows the elasticity ofthe met-al to expand the open end b of the stem, the edges thereof receding from each other, and thus widening the slot c until the space within the said end is enlarged sufiiciently4 to allow the end of the pencil to be inserted therein, which being done, the collar C is pushed back or inward, and, acting upon the tapering surface of the end of the stem, com presses the said end, as just fully explained, so that the inner surface thereof is brought tightly and concentrically around the pencil, and thus holds it securely in the stem by an equal pressure upon all points ot' its circuinference, while the metal forming the said end, being continuous instead of divided longitudinally in'to tongues, as in the common holder represented in Fig. 4, is rendered much stronger and stiier in proportion lo its weight, and may be made of the same thickness as the other portions of the tubular stem A, the reduced weight of metal required in the construction of the holderenablingit to be manufactured at a cheaper rate than those of the ordinary kind.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The holding stem or tube A, provided with a single slit, c, formed longitudinally in oneV side thereof, in combination with the sliding ring or collar C, substantially as herein set forth, for the purpose specified.

HENRY WV. HOLLY. Vitnesses:

HENRY T. BROWN, A. LE CLERC. 

